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In charity there is no excess.

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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
Lawyer
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
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Viscount St. Albans Verulam
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Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
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Viscount St. Alban
Excess
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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.
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All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
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Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
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